THE EMBRYOLOGICAL HOUSE --- GREG LYNN --- BODY DIAGRAMING
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BODY Interpreting the possible relationships between a body and
a building is difficult as even thought the interaction is intended
and planed in its the perception and the factor of diversity of
people that causes an imbalance in this equation. Architect Greg
Lynn's Embryological House is at once made and born, a hybrid of
computer simulation and genetic mutation. Greg Lynns work the The
Embryological House is a postmodern, organicist style inspired by
evolutionary biology and the science of turbulence and made
possible by the computer's ability to generate warped or fluid
forms. The relationship between architecture and the body is
apparent at many levels in this example of his work. The
Embryological House is suppose to trace the evolution pattern of
the human embryo. One of Lynns biggest fears was : How do you keep
a biological house from eating its occupants?
Figure 1: Here are a sequence of diagrams that address Lynns
fear of the form consuming the occupants.
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The Embryological House represents a new approach to fabrication
and growth. Historically, a modern house would be thought of as a
kit-of-parts. Each part is distinct and discreet, and you customize
the house through the addition or subtraction of parts from the
kit.
At the prototyping stage Lynn defined this project in stages and
each mutation was considered a stage in evaluation, non of the
mutations were considered perfect. The Embryological House was an
attempt to participate in that economic reality, but with a
completely different implicit lifestyle and relationship to the
environment. Lynn wanted to take a more biological approach, where
there would be no discreet components.
Blurring of boundaries The concept was that system had the same
morphospacethe same form-spaceso that a change in any component
would inflect every other component within the system.
Figure 2: Here are a sequence of diagrams that studies the
stages of evolution in terms of mutation and blurring of
boundaries
Figure 3 : Here are a sequence of diagrams that studies the
spreading of infection through a system
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POSSIBLE MUTATION PATTERNS AS NON WAS CONSIDERED IDEAL
Figure 4 : Diagrams the mutation System and the possible
iterations that could be generated in varied sequences
The Embryologic Houses can be described as a strategy for the
invention of domestic space that engages contemporary issues of
brand identity and variation, customisation and continuity,
flexible manufacturing and assembly and, most importantly, an
unapologetic investment in the contemporary beauty and voluptuous
aesthetics of undulating surfaces rendered vividly in iridescent
and opalescent colours.
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The Embryologic Houses employ a rigorous system of geometrical
limits that liberate models of endless variations.
Figure 5 : the endless iterations that could be generated using
the basic program code
Each iteration is generated by surface morphology
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Works Cited Agrest, Diana I. Architecture from Without: Body,
Logic, and Sex, in Architecture from Without, 1993, 173-191.
Merleau-Ponty, M. The Synthesis of Ones Own Body, in Phenomenology
of Perception, 1962, 148-54.
External References Karen Burns. Greg Lynns embryological house
project: the Technology and metaphors of metorsm of Architecture,
2000 Lynn, Greg. Animate Form. New York: Princeton Architectural
Press, 1999. Lynn, Greg. Greg Lynn: Embryological Houses, AD
Contemporary Processes in Architecture 70, 3, London: John Wiley
& Son, 2000: 26-35. Lynn, Greg, Folds, Bodies and Blobs:
Collected Essays. Brussells: La Lettre Vole, 2004.
